There may be a symmetrical interdependence between order and chaos.
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Kublai Khan wasn’t the first ruler in history to issue paper money, but his Yuan dynasty did take unprecedented action to ensure this revolutionary form of currency retained its value.
How did complex systems emerge from chaos? Physicist Sean Carroll explains.
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Fire-breathing dragons may represent chaos and the human impulse to conquer that threat.
The game of Plinko perfectly illustrates chaos theory. Even with indistinguishable initial conditions, the outcome is always uncertain.
A researcher explains a little-known niche within modern physics: animal collective behavior.
As cells divide, they must copy all of their chromosomes once and only once, or chaos would ensue. How do they do it? Key controls happen well before replication even starts.
Why are we here? What is everything made of? This theoretical physicist says science isn’t the right way to answer these questions.
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One god stands for order, logic, and reason. The other stands for chaos, madness, and drunkenness. Nietzsche thinks you need both.
The Serenity Prayer is nice — until the missiles come raining down on your city.
Bram Stoker's mother survived a terrible cholera outbreak and recounted the ghastly scenes to her son years later.
Climate and ecological changes, as well as disruptions to the food chain, were already killing off the dinosaurs.
1700s economic principles predicted Uber. A Nobel Prize-winning economist explains why.
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The human brain is only the latest chapter in the ancient story of thinking on Earth.
"The Soul of a New Machine" provides a rare level of insight into the minds and decisions of humanity's greatest thinkers.
With sea levels rising, the Dutch are pondering floating cities — while also exporting their engineering know-how to turn a tidy profit.
Who doesn't love a little existential fear every once in a while?
Telegrams were the “Twitter of the 1850s and 1860s” — and they elicited the exact same overblown fears as Twitter does today.
Does history have a grand narrative, or is it just a random walk to no place in particular? And is the world as we know it about to change?
It's not for climate science and condensed matter physics. It's for advancing our understanding beyond spherical cows.
"When Harry Met Sally" lied to you.
A brief look at the six-decade challenge to psychiatry.
"The Man in the High Castle" may be the most beloved alternate history book, but it is not the most historically accurate.
Wind farms seem less productive when scientists incorporate more realistic atmospheric models into their output predictions.
Our state of extreme social interconnectedness has rapidly accelerated the rollercoaster pace at which societal confidence may collapse.
It's spooky, and it's happening all around us. And inside us.
Researchers find a way to distort laser light to survive a trip through disordered obstacles.
Many people perceive the struggle to understand our Universe as a battle between science and God. But this is a false dichotomy.
The Universe isn't as "clumpy" as we think it should be.
